the performance of a plug flow electrocoagulation reactor for the treatment of cattle abattoir(slaughterhouse) wastewater was investigated. a cylindrical iron reactor was operated as a cathode at arecycling batch mode while three iron rods located at the center of the reactor were used as an anode. theeffects of different parameters, including the current density, the supporting electrolyte dos...

background: among alkanes, n-alkanes with medium chain have been identified as the most important contaminants of the soil. n-hexadecane (c16h34) with low solubility in water also belongs to this group and has been used by many researchers as a model contaminant. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of the external source of carbon (glucose) as co-substrate on removal of hexadecane...

the main objective of this study was to investigate the effi ciency of biological treatmentof azo dye-containing wastewater with a sequencing batch reactor system, followed by ultrafi ltration.the performance of the system was quantifi ed by measuring the chemical oxygen demand and azo dyeconcentration. the biodegradation was carried out under combined alternating anaerobic and aerobiccondition...

A novel real-time final product quality control method for batch operations based on stacked leastsquares support vector regression models (stacked LSSVR) is proposed. It combines midcourse correction (MCC) and batch-to-batch control. To enhance the model prediction accuracy and generalization capability, a stacked LSSVR approach is presented. Quality control is achieved by predicting the final...

In this article several control schemes for a pilot scale polymerization reactor are proposed and one of them is selected as the most suitable design. The performances of proposed schemes have been compared through computer simulations. The controllers are PID and Chosen reaction is polymerization of methyl methacrylate which is highly exothermic.

Both the continuous and batch transesterification of linseed oil were examined in order to maximize the fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) yield. The continuous process was conducted in a packed bed reactor using calcium oxide as a heterogeneous catalyst. In addition, the impact of two variables, namely the molar ratio of methanol to oil and the flow rate (ml/min), on the FAME yield were stu...